I, like many others in my generation, grew up reading books and not glued to a screen of some sort. We traveled. We were captured and we escaped. We rescued. We lived through the stories we read. We shared bonds with the characters, characters that, more often than not, became some of our closest friends. We laughed, we cried. I know I got angry and threw books across rooms because I became filled with so much emotion. The books I read became a part of me and I'm sure every other avid reader out there will agree with these statements 100 percent. And then one day, we might hear a rumor, a rumor that is soon proven to be a fact. They are making the book into a movie. So much external excitement, but deep down we are not really looking forward to it, because we know Hollywood will mess it up.

Most people have probably heard a story similar to this before, whether from a friend, family member, or the person sitting next to them in the movie theater. You see, during a movie everyone sees the same thing, but while reading each person has their own personal "movie" going on in their head based on the words the author chose to use. I am here to explain this theatrical disappointment of readers all over the world through a few of my least favorite based-on-books movies/television shows.

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1. "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Here's the thing with turning a series into movies, if you change one small detail in the first one it runs the risk of messing up all of the rest of them. This happened with "The Hunger Games." So much changed in the small details of things. The casting was really great and the effects were really well done, but somethings were just off. The book is from Katniss's perspective, so a lot of the story happens inside her head, so I was really curios to see how that would play out. The first thing that threw me off from the movie was at the very beginning. Katniss does not get the mockingjay pin from the Hobb, she gets it after she has already volunteered from the mayor's daughter, Madge, who isn't even in the movie! And then there is the Cornucopia. It looks like someone took a piece of tin foil and played soccer with it! It is described as looking like the traditional, woven, Thanksgiving cornucopia in the book, because Katniss uses the woven pieces to climb on top when the wolves are chasing the the tributes at the end of the first movie. Speaking of the wolves, there are supposed to be 21, one for every fallen tribute and they each have the eyes of one tribute. And then Peeta loses his leg when he gets attacked! Why they left that part out I have no idea. This detail really angers me because it changes the rest of the movies. Plus they left my absolute favorite part out of the first movie because it was "insignificant."

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2. The "Divergent" Trilogy

This series makes me so mad! I did not even go watch the movies about the last book because the first two were so bad. First of all, the two main characters are 16 and 18 and you would never be able to tell that from the actors who play them. Tris's tattoo is not right. In the second movie, the factionless are all wrong. They have a house underground. In the book they do have a good structure, but not an actual house. And the woman who plays Four's mom looks like she could be his sister because there was like a five year age difference in the actors. I literally sat in the movie theater during "Insurgent" with my best friend and we just kept going, "That's wrong. And that. Also that." There is just so much inconsistency between the books and the movies.

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3. "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

This movie is straight up awful. First off, why did they put three books into one movie? And then they just stopped! There are 13 books in the series, but only one movie. I am so glad that they have now come out with a series on Netflix. In my personal opinion it is ten times better than the movie. I watched movie once and refuse to watch it again, but I watched all of the episodes of season one of the show in one day.

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4. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

Okay, so my issue with this movie is not really about what is in the movies, as to what is not in it. This is absolutely one of the best books that I have ever read and one of the best movies I have ever seen. For the most part the movie is pretty accurate. However, it does fall short when it comes to the order of which events happened. The timeline is all wrong in the movie. The movie does leave out one kind of big event. Charlie's, the main character, sister ends up getting pregnant in the book and has Charlie take her to the clinic to get an abortion and she does not let him tell anyone else. This is kind of a big deal because Charlie is psychologically unstable and he can't really handle stuff like that.

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Now don't get me wrong and think that I hate these movies, because for the most part they are really well done. But in comparison to the books they are based off of, they just don't match up. There are many more movies and TV series based off of books that are also very bad representations, but if I listed all of them I would never be able to finish this article. So think next time before you write off the book and just watch the movie, because you may miss some major details.